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Cosmos Books Read 2020 Revised

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The 10 Best Books of 2020

  • A Children’s Bible. …
  • Deacon King Kong. …
  • Hamnet. A bold feat of imaging …
  • Homeland Elegies. …
  • The Vanishing Half. …
  • Hidden Valley Road. …
  • A Promised Land. …
  • Shakespeare in a Divided Ameri …
  • Uncanny Valley. …
  • War. This is a short book but …

New York Public Library List

Books Read 2020

Books read 2019

books read during 2018

books read

Reading the Classics

Goals: 100 Books

Read Classics

One Thriller Per Month

One history/politics book per month

Read A Lot More Poetry

Read At Least One Book A Year in Spanish

Read At Least One Book A Year in Korean

Accomplishments:

Read about 100 books, (380 stories, poems included as part of the total). I read a lot of classics this year, finishing Dante’s Inferno and the first couple of volumes of the Harvard classics. Also read a lot of poetry, completed Mod Po, and read the best American Poetry 2019, 2018 and 2017, and the first two George Elliot Novels.

Anthologies Where My Work Has Been Published

  1. Anatomy of The Beatnik Cowboy

  2. Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems

  3. Otherwise Engaged Volume 1

  4. On the Road the Poet Volume 1

  5. Poets Facing the Wall

I have about 100 poems and short stories published this year. See separate worksheet coming for complete list.

  1. Horror/Sleaze/Trash Poems
  2. Otherwise Engaged Volume 1
  3. On the Road the Poet Volume 1
  4. Poets Facing the Wall

I have about 100 poems and short stories published this year. See separate worksheet coming for complete list.

Books Read

 

  1. Dante The Divine Comedy Own Library
  2. John Burnet Bangkok Haunts
  3. Micah Caida Time Trap Red Moon Trilogy Vol 1
  4. Demelza Carlton See You in Hell
  5. Lee Child Jack Reacher 61 Hours Own Library
  6. Lee Child Jack Reacher the Enemy Own Library
  7. Cs Lewis The Lion, The Witch, And the Wardrobe in Spanish
  8. Theresa Crater Under the Stone Paw
  9. Charles Cuming A Foreign Country
  10. Earnest Dempsey The Secrets of The Stones
  11. Earnest Dempsey The Templar Curse
  12. Brandon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy
  13. Sterling E Lanier Hiero’s Journey Own Library
  14. George Elliot Adam Bede
  15. Ts Elliot Complete Poems and Plays Own Library
  16. Milos Fowler Captain Bartholomew Quasar

 

AC Fuller

 

  1. Ac Fuller the Cutline an Alex Vance Novel Own Library
  2. Ac Fuller the Inverted Pyramid Own Library
  3. Ac Fuller the Anonymous Source Own Library
  4. Ac Fuller the Mockingbird Drive Own Library
  5. Ac Fuller the Shadow File Own Library
  6. Ac Fuller the Last Journalist

 

  1. Jeschonek The Greatest Serial Killer in The Universe
  2. Jeschonek The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake
  3. Dieter Kellen Enigma What Lies Below

 

Harvard classics Vol one

 

  1. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  2. William Penn Fruits of Solitude
  3. The Journals of John Woolman

 

Harvard Classics Volume Two

 

  1. Plato The Apology, Phaedo And Crito
  2. The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
  3. The Mediations of Marcus Aurelius

 

  1. Warren Hately Reporting the Appocalypse
  2. Jim Heskett Museum Attack
  3. John Ling Fallen Angel
  4. Robert Ludlum The Cry of The Haledon
  5. Lincoln Cole Second Chances
  6. Mathew Mather Dark Net
  7. Kyle Mills the Utopia Experiment
  8. James Rollins Map of Bones Own Library
  9. Nick Thacker the Depths
  10. Nick Thacker the Enigma Strain
  11. Nick Thacker the Relics
  12. Nick Thacker the Atlantis Stone
  13. Elizabeth Williamson Tokyo Firewall

Clark Aston Smith Abominations of Yondo

  1. Clark The Nameless Offspring
  2. Clark The Witchcraft of Ulua
  3. Clark The Devotee of Evil
  4. Clark The Epiphany of Death
  5. Clark A Vintage from Atlantis
  6. Clark The Abominations of Yonda
  7. Clark The White Sybil
  8. Clark The Ice Demon
  9. Clark The Voyage of King Eurovan
  10. Clark The Master of The Crabs
  11. Clark The Enchantress of Sylaire
  12. Clark The Dweller in The Gulf
  13. Clark The Dark Age
  14. Clark The Third Episode of Vahek
  15. Clark Chinoiseries
  16. Clark The Mirror in The Hall of Ebony
  17. Clark The Passing of Aphrodite

Mod Po Week One

  1. Mod Po Poems – Week One- Emily Dickinson The Brain in Its Groove
  2. Emily Dickinson Tell the Truth Slant
  3. Emily Dickson, I Dwell in Possibility Second Favorite
  4. Whitman Songs of I Favorite Note to Self-Read Entire Leaves of Glass in December After Mod Po
  5. Vanek Whitman’s Soul
  6. William Carlos Williams Smell
  7. William Carlos Williams Dance Russe Second Favorite
  8. Allen Ginsberg Supermarket in California Favorite
  9. Lorraine Neidecker Grandfather Advised Me
  10. Lorraine Neidecker You Are My Friend
  11. Lorraine Neidecker Foreclosure
  12. Cid Corman It Is not for Want
  13. Ray Armantrout the Way

Mod Po Week Three

  1. Hd Sea Rose
  2. Ezra Pound (Ep) In A Station of The Metro
  3. Ep the Encounter
  4. Tony Foster Haiku
  5. William Carlos Williams (Wcm) Lines
  6. Wcm Between Walls
  7. Wcm This Is Just to Say
  8. Wcm Red Wheelbarrow
  9. Wcw The Rose Is Obsolete
  10. Wcm Portrait of a Lady
  11. Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending A Stairway
  12. MP Fountain

Mod Po Week Four

  1. Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons Raining (From Tender Buttons)
  2. Malachite (From Tender Buttons)
  3. A Carafe That Is A Blind Glass
  4. Long Dress
  5. Composition as Explanation
  6. Let Us Describe – My Second Favorite]f I Told Him Would He Like It Completed Portrait of Picasso –
  7. My Favorite Baroness Elsa Von Freytag Lorringhoven a Dozen Cocktails
  8. Tristan Tzara How to Make a Dadaist Poem
  9. John Pearl Bishop A Recollection Sonnet

 

Mod Po Week Five

 

  1. Ruth Lectlitian Lines for An Abortionist Office
  2. Genevieve Taggard Intern
  3. Harlem Renaissance Poets Countee Cullen Yet I Do Marvel]
  4. Incident
  5. Claud Mc Kay If We Must Die
  6. Langston Hughes Dinner Guest Me
  7. Gwendolyn Brooks Boy Breaking Glass
  8. Gwendolyn Brooks Truth

 

Robert Frost Conservative reaction

 

  1. Robert Frost Mending Wells

 

Week Six Beat Poets

 

  1. Robert Creeley I Know A Man
  2. Jayne Cortez, She Got It He Got It
  3. Ginsberg Howl
  4. Fereghetthi Baseball Canto
  5. Le Roi Jones Incident
  6. Le Roi Jones How You Sound
  7. Jack Kerouac Belief and Techniques for Modern Prose
  8. Jack Kerouac Essentials of Spontaneous Prose
  9. Jack Kerouac Ideas About Prose
  10. Jack Kerouac Old Angel Midnight
  11. Jack Kerouac Babble Flow
  12. Bob Kaufman Jail Poems
  13. Anne Waldman Rogue State

 

Week Seven NY School

 

  1. Harrif Abdurraqib Usa V Cuba
  2. John Ashbury Instruction Manual
  3. Some Trees
  4. Barbara Guest 20
  5. Frank O Hara the Day Lady Died
  6. Kenneth Koch Variations on A Theme by William Carlos Williams
  7. Bernadette Madeline Invasion of The Body Snatchers
  8. Eileen Myers Mount St Helens
  9. Patrick Rosal Uptown Ode
  10. James Schuler February

 

Week Eight Language Poets

 

  1. Hejinian My Life
  2. Bob Pearlman Chronic Meaning
  3. Charles Bernstein In A Restless World Like This
  4. Emily Dickinson My Life Has Stood A Loaded Gun
  5. Susan Howe My Emily Dickinson
  6. Harriette Muller Sleeping with The Dictionary
  7. Tyrone Williams Cannot Tyrone Williams Written by Him
  8. John Keens Persons and Places

 

Week Nine Aleatory Poets

 

  1. Week Nine John Cage Writing Through Howl
  2. John Cage Adagio Jackson Mac Law A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore
  3. Jackson Mac Law Version of Stein’s A Grass Carafe
  4. Jackson Mac Law Version of Stein 100 Feather Justice Chair
  5. Jeana Osman Dropping Leaflets
  6. Bernadette Myers Writing Experiments
  7. Realtak Not A Cage

 

Week Ten  Experimental Poets

 

  1. Christin Bur Chapter E of Eudora
  2. Erica Baumgart Catalogue
  3. Erica Baumgart Dog Ears
  4. Caroline Bergville Via
  5. Michael Magee The Pledge
  6. Michael Magee My Emily Dickinson
  7. Michael Magee Farf Poetry
  8. Rose Marie Waldrops Shorter American Memory of The Declaration of Independence
  9. Naser Hussain Sky Write Ngs
  10. Jordan Abel Place of Scraps
  11. Terrae Morris African Emily Dickinson The Poet Lights the Lamp Essay One
  12. William Carlos Williams The Attic Which Is Desire Essay Two
  13. James Schuller The Day Gets Started Slowly Essay Three

 

 

  1. Jack Carr the Terminal List

 

George Elliot Novels

 

  1. Adam Bede
  2. The Lifted Veil

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquest Stories

 

  1. Eyes of A Blue Dog: The Third Resignation
  2. Eyes of A Blue Dog: The Other Side of Death
  3. Eyes of A Blue Dog: Eva Is Inside Her Cat
  4. Eyes of A Blue Dog: Bitterness for Three Sleepwalkers
  5. Eyes of A Blue Dog; Dialogue with The Mirror
  6. Eyes of A Blue Dog
  7. Eyes of A Blue Dog the Woman That Came At 6:00 O’clock
  8. Eyes of A Blue Dog: Someone Has Been Disarranging
  9. Eyes of A Blue Dog: The Night of The Curlews
  10. Eyes of A Blue Dog: Monologue of Isabel Watching It Rain in Moncondo
  11. Big Mama’s Funeral: Tuesday Siesta
  12. Big Mama’s Funeral: One of These Days
  13. Big Mama’s Funeral: There Are No Thieves in This Town
  14. Big Mama’s Funeral: Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon
  15. Big Mama’s Funeral: Montiel’s Widow
  16. Big Mama’s Funeral: One Day After Saturday
  17. Big Mama’s Funeral: Artificial Roses
  18. Big Mama’s Funeral
  19. The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent in Erendira And Her Heartless Grandmother Old Man with Enormous Wings
  20. Heartless Grandmother: The Sea of Last Time
  21. Heartless Grandmother: Handsome Drowned Man in The World
  22. Heartless Grandmother: Death Constant Beyond Love
  23. Heartless Grandmother: Last Voyage of The Ghost Ship
  24. Heartless Grandmother: Blacaman The Good, Vendor of Miracles
  25. The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent in Erendira And Her Heartless Grandmother

 

Best American Poetry 2019

 

 

  1. Dilruba Ahmed Phase One
  2. Rosa Alclad You and The Raw Bullets
  3. Margaret Atwood Updates on Werewolves
  4. Catherine Barnett Center Park
  5. Joshua Bennett America Will Be
  6. Fleda Brown Afternoons on The Lake
  7. Sumitra Chakraborty Essay on Joy
  8. Victoria Chung Six Orbits
  9. Glen Chan I Invite My Parents to A Dinner Party
  10. Leonard Cohen I Drank A Lot
  11. Laura Cronk Like A Cat
  12. Kate Daniels Metaphor Less
  13. Carol Dennis Armed Neighbor
  14. Tori Derricotte Apology to The Reader
  15. Thomas Devaney Brilliant Corners
  16. Natalie Diaz Skin- Light
  17. Jean Dominique Duryer Declined in The Adoration of Jack in The Pulpits
  18. Martin Espada I Now Pronounce You Dead
  19. Nausheen Eusurf The Analytic Hour
  20. Vievere Francis Cazonian Blue Than Bluer
  21. Gabriela García Guantanamera
  22. Amy Gerstler Update
  23. Camila Guthrie Virgil
  24. Yona Harvey Dark and Lonely After Takeoff A Future
  25. Robert Hass Dancing
  26. Terrance Hayes American Silent My Past and Future Assassin
  27. Juan Felipe Herrera Roll Under the Waves
  28. Edward Hirsch Stranger by Night
  29. Jane Hershfield Ledger
  30. James Hock Sunflowers
  31. Bob Homan All Praise Cecil Taylor
  32. Garrett Hongo The Brothers Cassia
  33. Ishion Hutchison Sympathy of a Clear Day
  34. Major Jackson In Memory of Derek Alton Walcott
  35. Ilya Kaminski From Last Will and Testament
  36. Ruth Ellen Kocher We May No Longer Considered the End
  37. Deborah Landau Soft Targets
  38. Quraysh Ali Lansana Higher Calling
  39. Li Young Lee the Undressing
  40. David Lehman It Could Happen to You
  41. Ada Limon Cannibal Women
  42. Rebecca Lynn Berry A Brief History of The Future Apocalypse
  43. Nubila Lovelace The S in I Love You Porgy
  44. Clarence Major Hair
  45. () Gail Mazur At A Lands End
  46. () Shane Mcrae The President Visits the Storm
  47. () Jeffrey Mcdonald Fired from A Parallel World
  48. () Campbell Mcgrath Gray Miles Davis Birth of The Cool at The Founding in Brasilia
  49. Ange Milinko Sleepwalking in Venice
  50. Kamela Aisha Moon
  51. The Last of England
  52. Paul Moulton Aubade
  53. John Murio on Confessionalism
  54. Naomi Shihab Nye My Own State Department
  55. Sharon Olds Rasputin Aria
  56. Michael Palmer Nord-Sur
  57. Morgan Parker The Black Saint, And the Sinner Lady, The Dead and The Truth
  58. William Perdomo Head Crack Head Crack
  59. Carl Philip Star Map with Action Figures
  60. Ishmael Reed Just Rolling Along
  61. Paisely Rekdal Four Marys
  62. Sonia Sanchez Belly, Buttons and Straight Spines
  63. Nicole Santalucia #Me Too
  64. Philip Schultz Encore
  65. Jane Shore Who Knows One
  66. The Greatest Personal Privation
  67. Ae Stallings Harms Way
  68. Arthur Sze The White Orchard
  69. Natasha Trethewey Through Her A Duty
  70. Ocean Voong Partly True Phone Reflecting in A Mirror
  71. David Wojahn Still Life Stevens Wallet and Key West Hotel Dresser
  72. Kevin Young High

 

Best American Poetry 2018

 

  1. Allison Adair Miscarriage
  2. Kaveh Akbar Against Dying
  3. Julia Alvarez American Dream
  4. David Barber Sherpa Song
  5. AR Amnov Finishing Up
  6. Andrew Bertaina A Translator’s Note
  7. Frank Bidart Mourning What We Thought We Were
  8. Bruce Bond Anthem
  9. George Bradley Those Were The Days
  10. Joyce Clement Birds Punctuate The Days
  11. Brennan Constantine The Opposite Games
  12. Marianne Cobbett Prayer Concerning The New More Accurate Translation Of Certain Prayers
  13. Robert Cording Toast To My Dead Parents
  14. Cynthia Cruz Artaud
  15. Dick Davis A Personal Sonnet
  16. Warren Decker Today’s Special
  17. Susan De Sola The Wives of The Poets
  18. Dante De Stefano Reading Dostoyevsky At 17
  19. Nausheen Eusuf Pied Beauty
  20. Jonathan Gallasi Oriental Epithalamion
  21. Jessica Goodfellow Test
  22. Sonia Greenfield Ghost Ship
  23. Joy Harjo An American Sunrise
  24. Terrance Hayes American Sonnet From My Past And Future Assassins
  25. Ernest Hilbert Mars Ultor
  26. Nemo Hill The View From The Bar
  27. Tony Hoagland Into The Mystery
  28. Anna Maria Hong Yonder a Rental
  29. Paul Hoover I Am The Size Of What I see
  30. Maria Howe Walking Home
  31. Mandy Kahn Ives
  32. Ilya Kaminski We Lived Happily During The War
  33. Stephan Kampa The Quiet Boy
  34. Denika Kelly Love Poem Chimera
  35. Mary Jo Salter We Will Always Have Parents
  36. Jason Schneiderman Voxel
  37. Nicole Sealy Violence
  38. Michael Schumacher Advent
  39. Carmen Gimenez Smith Dispatch From Midlife
  40. Tracy K Smith An Old Story
  41. Gary Snyder Why California Will Never Be Like Tuscany
  42. A E Stallings Pencil
  43. Anne Stevenson How Poems Arrive
  44. Adriene Su Substitutions
  45. Natasha Trehewey Shooting Wild
  46. Agniezeku Tworek Grief Runs Untamed
  47. Waldrep Dear Office In Which I Must Account For Tears
  48. Wang Ping Lao Jia
  49. James Matthew Wilson On A Palm
  50. Ryan Wilson Face It

 

Best American Poetry 2017

 

  1. Christian Wiman Assembly
  2. Dan Allerbotti Weapons Exchange Report
  3. David Barber On A Shaker Admonition
  4. Dan Beachy – Quick Apophatic
  5. Bruce Bond Homage to a Painter Of Small Things
  6. John Brennan Intrigue in The Trees
  7. John Ashbery Commotion Of Birds
  8. Jericho Brown Bullet Points
  9. Nicole Brown The Dead
  10. Cyrus Cassells Elegy With A Gold Cradle
  11. Isaac Cates Fidelity And The Dead Singer
  12. Allison Cobb I Forgive You
  13. Leonard Cohen Steer Your Way
  14. Michael Collier A Wild Tom Turkey
  15. Billy Collins Presence
  16. Carl Dennis Two Lives
  17. Katia Claudia Emerson Spontaneous Emission
  18. David Feinstein Kaddish
  19. Carolyn Fouche The Boatman
  20. Vieva Francis Given To Those proclivities By God
  21. Amy Gerstler Dead Butterfly
  22. Reginald Gibbons Canasta
  23. Margaret Given Passage
  24. Aracelis Girmay From The Black Maria
  25. Jeffrey Harrison Higher Education
  26. Terrace Hayes Ars Poetica With Bacon
  27. RJ Herbert Mounting The Dove Box
  28. Tony Hoagland Cause Of Death Fox News
  29. John Hogan Hamlet Texts Guildenstern About Paying Upon The Pipe
  30. David Brendan Hopes Certain Things
  31. Major Jackson Trends A Well Light Summer Cocktail
  32. John James History
  33. Rodney Jones Homecoming
  34. Fatty Judah Progress Notes
  35. Meg Kearney Kearney Crackle
  36. John Koethe The Age Of Anxiety
  37. Yusef Komunyakaa from the last bohemian of Avenue A
  38. Danusha Lammeris The Watch
  39. Jordan Laux Lapse
  40. Phillip Le Van Rain In Winter
  41. Amit Majumdar Kill List
  42. Jamal May Things That Break
  43. Judson Mitchem White
  44. John Murillo Upon reading that Eric Dolphy transcribed Even the calls of certain species of birds
  45. Joyce Carol Oates To Marlon Brando In Hell
  46. Sharon Olds Ode To The Glands
  47. Matthew Bozeman Letter Beginning With Two Lines By Czeslaw Milosz
  48. Gregory Orr Three Dark Proverb Sonnets
  49. Carl Phillips Rockabye
  50. Rowan Picado Phillips Halo
  51. Robin Robert Pinksy Names
  52. Stanley Plumly Poliomyelitis
  53. Paisley Rekdal Assemblage of ruined Plane Parts Vietnam Military Museum
  54. Michael Ryan the Mercy Home
  55. David St John Emanations
  56. Cheryl Santos I Went For A Walk In Winter
  57. Taiji Silverman Where To Put It
  58. Charles Simic Seeing Things
  59. Danny Smith Last Summer Of Innocence
  60. Maggie Smith Good Bones
  61. RT Smith Maricon
  62. RE Stallings Shattered
  63. Pamela Sutton Afraid To Pray
  64. Chase Twitchell Sad Song
  65. James Valvis Something
  66. Emily Van Kley Dear Skull
  67. Wendy Videlock Deconstruction
  68. Lucy Waigner Scheherazade
  69. Crystal Williams Double Helix
  70. Christian Wiman Prelude
  71. Monica Yoan Green acre
  72. C Dale Young Precatico Simplex
  73. Dean Young Infinitives
  74. Kevin Young Money Road
  75. Matthew Zapruder Poem for Vows

 

 

To Read  first quarter 2021

 

Elliot Novels

 

Adam Bede (1859)  read,

The Lifted Veil   read

The Mill on the Floss (1860),

Silas Marner (1861),

Romola (1862–63),

Felix Holt, the Radical (1866),

Middlemarch (1871–72)

and Daniel Deronda (1876).

 

Harvard Classics

 

Poets Companion Finish

Art and Craft of Poetry Finish

Poetry for Dummies

Whitman Leaves of Grass
Dickenson Collected Poems
       Robert Service Poems (From Alaskan Gold Rush Period)
Milton Collected Poems

Mina Nair Beyond and Back Indian short stories

Robert Buswell The Zen Monastic Tradition

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